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Golden State Warriors Fan BlogTue, 31 Mar 2015 20:41:00 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1By: sartrehttp://blogs.mercurynews.com/warriors/2012/06/10/final-grades-the-guards/comment-page-4/#comment-173948
sartreWed, 13 Jun 2012 06:57:33 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/warriors/?p=2277#comment-173948Hard not to admire Durant – great player, role-model, and by all accounts genuinely nice guy. Hope he and his young team win it all.
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El TopoWed, 13 Jun 2012 04:22:31 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/warriors/?p=2277#comment-173947For years now I’ve thought LeBron the best player in the NBA. Might have to revise this in light of Durant’s emergence.

Fun to watch these guys…as well as Westbrook, Sefolosha, and Ibaka.
Oh, and Collison played well…quicker and more mobile than Perkins.

Great post. I’ve finally come down on the Leonard side in my internal debate over Leonard, Henson, Zeller, Moultrie, Drummond.
Would only take Davis, MKG, or Robinson ahead of Leonard

My dream picks, of course,are Leonard at #7 and Kevin Jones #30 (if Royce White is not available). We will be set at the 4 and 5 for years and Jones can play some 3. No more skinny forwards with “potential”.

And OKC played miserably in the first half and Heat couldn’t do better, yet it was a 7 pt game at the half. Are Battier and Chalmers going to shoot like that again? Hardly. But Harden can play better than he did.

Just can’t see Heat winning a game unless OKC totally loses concentration.

Durant is the bomb. Westbrook had a very good game. I’ve been critical of the guy but when he plays like tonight, have to give him phis props.

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monstaWed, 13 Jun 2012 03:47:24 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/warriors/?p=2277#comment-173944He may be hurt. He didn’t look like himself during the Boston series either.
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Son of AhmedWed, 13 Jun 2012 03:38:53 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/warriors/?p=2277#comment-173942Where is dwyane wade?
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monstaWed, 13 Jun 2012 03:20:14 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/warriors/?p=2277#comment-173941Great game tonight. These teams are so friggin good. Durant plays just about perfect basketball.
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monstaWed, 13 Jun 2012 03:03:00 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/warriors/?p=2277#comment-173940I don’t see a drafted SF starting for the Warriors.

Remember Wesley Johnson. For that matter, Evan Turner, Paul George and Al-Farouq Aminu, Derrick Williams, Jan Vesely, Tristan Thompson. Many of them can’t-miss SFs, high picks, nice players, and none of them started as rookies.

The Warriors don’t have a first-rounder next year. There’s a reason big men move up the board as the draft approaches, because good ones are rare. Now is the time to use the early pick on a good one.

I agree with all your Leonard criticisms — half-step too late too often, sloppy footwork on O, out of position on both O and D, sometimes. But, two rejoinders:

1. This kid has amazing talents: He’s fast, surprisingly strong, super smart, athletic, has a nice sense of timing, is really devoted to his craft, improved in every category — and by a lot — from first to second year, and — almost above all — he’s very teachable (which leads me to . . . .);

2. If Malone stays, he’s the perfect guy to work with Leonard, and bring him up to NBA speed fast. (Cf. Tyler, who seemed almost to fight the coaching last year, before finally starting to get it.) Leonard seems to be able to just soak it up — as his across-the-board improvements reflect.

Also, Tyler’s not ever going to be a five, I don’t think. He’s just too small and easily shoved around. I DO like him as a four, though, enjoy his timing (much improved over the season) and overall athleticism. Plus, the guy has no fear — which is a terrific asset on this team.

But, he’s just NOT a five (or, he’s as much a five as Lee — who’s not a five either, at least in my book).

Finally, if anything fails to pan out with Bogut — for whatever reason — I venture we’d both rather have Leonard at the five than Tyler.

BTW, if I thot we could get MKG — tho I’d hate to give up both the 7 and 30 plus change (DW?) — I’d be happy; alternatively, if the trade holzman read about for Iggy were to work, I’d love that too. So, maybe Myers can pull something off.

But, failing that, I see nothing better — and, really, nothing that close to Leonard — at the 7 slot (I now would prefer Leonard to Drummond — if only because Leonard hits over 70% of FTs, while Andre still hovers under 30% — Yeccch! Will Drummond ever be able to play in crunch time?), unless Myers/West see something more in Barnes, TJones, et al. than I do.

BTW, sartre @152: Thanks much for that Leonard pull; hadn’t seen it — but it certainly amplifies my take on the kid.

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bryhsiaoWed, 13 Jun 2012 01:01:27 +0000http://blogs.mercurynews.com/warriors/?p=2277#comment-173937btw Harrison Barnes handle looked Dorell Wrightish to me. Maybe a little better but really he could not go to places he wanted to go on the court.
His left dribble is pretty weak.( DW represents!!!)